Bowl Games & CFB Playoff

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Herndon, VA
Well, good for Georgia. As the announcers said, back to back championships are not done every year.
 
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Herndon, VA
Over/under for when TV-land fans went to bed: half time, late second qtr, mid second qtr, early third qtr, any others?
Full disclosure: I stayed until the end. I paid good money for my seats and I was going to get my money's worth. So there!
 
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Lived in Georgia since 1986. Married Georgia girl . 2 Georgia born children. All that said, I think Georgia showed no class to run up the score when obviously TCU had zero chance to win. Just makes me hate the SEC even more than I already do. And now they are " acquiring " men's basketball talent the way they do with football, look at the polls.
 
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Lived in Georgia since 1986. Married Georgia girl . 2 Georgia born children. All that said, I think Georgia showed no class to run up the score when obviously TCU had zero chance to win. Just makes me hate the SEC even more than I already do. And now they are " acquiring " men's basketball talent the way they do with football, look at the polls.
Eh, I can't get too upset about the score. Georgia threw a TD pass, up 45-7, late in the third quarter. But come on, they were gonna score if they just ran up the middle on that drive. Georgia got 2 meaningful possessions in the fourth quarter, ran the ball, and scored twice.

Georgia said all the right things about TCU both before and after the game. They showed respect, they were just that good.
 
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Eh, I can't get too upset about the score. Georgia threw a TD pass, up 45-7, late in the third quarter. But come on, they were gonna score if they just ran up the middle on that drive. Georgia got 2 meaningful possessions in the fourth quarter, ran the ball, and scored twice.

Georgia said all the right things about TCU both before and after the game. They showed respect, they were just that good.

Exactly. I'm of the opinion that if you don't want teams to run up the score on you, your team has to be the one to stop them. Simple as that.
 
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Georgia opens at +375 favorite at Caesar's Sportsbook to win next season's CFP. Alabama (+550) and Ohio State (+650) are the next betting favorites. USC is at 10-1. Michigan and LSU are at 14-1. Clemson is at 18-1. TCU is at 40-1.
 
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As someone who sees things from a different perspective, I can not explain how I excited I was to see the best the big 12 has to offer, get blasted by an sec opponent, and probably would have been blasted by the top quarter, if not too half, of the league.

Texas is gonna get murdered for years when they move to the SEC and I’m here for it. 😃
 
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As someone who sees things from a different perspective, I can not explain how I excited I was to see the best the big 12 has to offer, get blasted by an sec opponent, and probably would have been blasted by the top quarter, if not too half, of the league.

Texas is gonna get murdered for years when they move to the SEC and I’m here for it. 😃
Texas will be fine. Their recruiting is much much better than any other BIG 12 school. They get all of the A listers-4* and 5* kids. Now, their recruiting will be even better. WIth Manning coming in, they will make some noise in the next few years. Do I think they will win the west? No. But they will be competitive. Should have beaten Alabama this year.
 
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Texas will be fine. Their recruiting is much much better than any other BIG 12 school. They get all of the A listers-4* and 5* kids. Now, their recruiting will be even better. WIth Manning coming in, they will make some noise in the next few years. Do I think they will win the west? No. But they will be competitive. Should have beaten Alabama this year.
Texas has underachieved their recruited talent for years. It'll be interesting if they finally break out of that. They probably will.
 
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If OSU and Michigan played in the SEC Conference they would have 2-3 losses EVERY YEAR! They will be ranked in the top 5-6 in 2023 because they will once again dominate the weaker teams and have un umblemished record. Sorry, I am a BIG fan but they are the inferior conference in Football!
 
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If OSU and Michigan played in the SEC Conference they would have 2-3 losses EVERY YEAR! They will be ranked in the top 5-6 in 2023 because they will once again dominate the weaker teams and have un umblemished record. Sorry, I am a BIG fan but they are the inferior conference in Football!
So OSU just lost to the National champs Georgia, in Atlanta, by one point because their All-American kicker shanked a game winning kick. I think they lost but showed they could beat them in an away game.
 
#341      
If OSU and Michigan played in the SEC Conference they would have 2-3 losses EVERY YEAR! They will be ranked in the top 5-6 in 2023 because they will once again dominate the weaker teams and have un umblemished record. Sorry, I am a BIG fan but they are the inferior conference in Football!

We love the improvement we see in the Illini football program. It's fun to see winning games again and a brighter future.

But what this latest College Football Championship shows is that programs like Georgia are just on a whole other level. They are now one of the maybe four programs that are always a full level higher than everyone else in the Top Ten... and much higher than the most everybody else in the Country.

This is the current landscape of college football. Quasi-pro-level talent every single year and punishing opponents for the top-level programs. SEC teams will pick up a loss or two most seasons because of the awesome level of talent overall in that Conference as they work on each other.

TCU is a good, good team. And they were leveled. That tells you just where the state of college football is now.

SEC is separating itself a bit above Big Ten level. And Big Ten is a full level better than everyone other than most in SEC. Big 12 seems to have a brighter future as things settle down in the shifting conferences and might try to rival the Big Ten in coming years. Big Ten needs to add Washington and Oregon to round things out.

And the Illini? Just keep getting better and giving us happy Saturdays.
 
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TCU is a GOOD team and got totally leveled but BEAT supposedly the BEST team in the BIG in Michigan! That's my point
 
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We love the improvement we see in the Illini football program. It's fun to see winning games again and a brighter future.

But what this latest College Football Championship shows is that programs like Georgia are just on a whole other level. They are now one of the maybe four programs that are always a full level higher than everyone else in the Top Ten... and much higher than the most everybody else in the Country.

This is the current landscape of college football. Quasi-pro-level talent every single year and punishing opponents for the top-level programs. SEC teams will pick up a loss or two most seasons because of the awesome level of talent overall in that Conference as they work on each other.

TCU is a good, good team. And they were leveled. That tells you just where the state of college football is now.

SEC is separating itself a bit above Big Ten level. And Big Ten is a full level better than everyone other than most in SEC. Big 12 seems to have a brighter future as things settle down in the shifting conferences and might try to rival the Big Ten in coming years. Big Ten needs to add Washington and Oregon to round things out.

And the Illini? Just keep getting better and giving us happy Saturdays.
IMO, something has to be done to change the non competitive evolution of college football. It has not been that long (20 years maybe) since the potential national champion could be drawn from a pool of 15 teams. Now its shrunk to 5-6. The ownership of the sport has shifted from the colleges to the sports media. Their (sports media) only interest is to provide the highest quality entertainment. Their talk about the student athlete is a sham. They care nothing about the student. Despite the reservations I may have, I believe it is time from the college presidents to assert themselves, authorize the formation of a committee that will design and implement a process that will create an intercollegiate setup that 1) returns the focus of students athletes to earning a degree in a traditional major and 2) levels the playing field so that all participants have a more or less equal shot at a championship in any given year. If a kid wants to focus on honing his skills to play professionally, create a semi pro league(s) for that purpose. I love college football as much as anyone but watching a few teams play for the championship (now the end all be all) most every year is dampening my enthusiasm. Just my 2 cents.
 
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IMO, something has to be done to change the non competitive evolution of college football. It has not been that long (20 years maybe) since the potential national champion could be drawn from a pool of 15 teams. Now its shrunk to 5-6. The ownership of the sport has shifted from the colleges to the sports media. Their (sports media) only interest is to provide the highest quality entertainment. Their talk about the student athlete is a sham. They care nothing about the student. Despite the reservations I may have, I believe it is time from the college presidents to assert themselves, authorize the formation of a committee that will design and implement a process that will create an intercollegiate setup that 1) returns the focus of students athletes to earning a degree in a traditional major and 2) levels the playing field so that all participants have a more or less equal shot at a championship in any given year. If a kid wants to focus on honing his skills to play professionally, create a semi pro league(s) for that purpose. I love college football as much as anyone but watching a few teams play for the championship (now the end all be all) most every year is dampening my enthusiasm. Just my 2 cents.
That would be a terrible idea. The reason there is a mandatory delay between high school and the NFL is because kids physically aren't strong enough to survive an NFL season. Even a muscle bound kid or giant kid needs to strengthen his tendons, ligaments, etc or he's toast. So what's the point of a semi-pro league? To dilute the talent so my team has a better chance? pass

Let's be honest, no one has ever cared about the student part. Ok maybe 2 people. Sure we say cool that guy is an Engineer and a football player, but Coach Sam Winters from ESU said it best, "Yeah, but when was the last time you saw 80,000 people show up to watch a kid do a damn chemistry experiment?"

The agony and the ecstasy of college basketball is the best team doesn't always win. In fact, it's pretty rare that the best team wins. You really get 2 championships, your conference championship to signify the strength of your season, and then the NCAA tournament which is who can maintain a hot streak for a short amount of time. That's not feasible in football because of the injuries.

To me the problem is not that there are 5 or 6 teams that could legitimately win, it's that in reality there is 1-3. No one was beating Georgia this year. From day 1, we knew who would win. There were years you could say the same thing about Alabama or Clemson. On a wild year you have maybe 3 teams clearly better than everyone else. There is no way to stop this currently. When a 5 star kid is willing to be 3rd string at Georgia rather than be a starter at Illinois, you will not level that playing field. College sports has always been plagued with cheating, now is is just highest bidder. To me the only way to level a playing field would be to pay kids uniformly and implement a salary cap. Which will never happen.

To me BY FAR the most interesting pro sport is the NFL. That is in large part because of how it's set up. Now luxury tax for going over the salary cap, no lottery system for who gets what pick. You stay with in the cap. If your team is full of young studs looking to get paid, tough, make a trade. If you stink you get the best pick. It is the only sport where the landscape can swing so wildly from year to year. Your team might not go from worst to first but they can go from worst to a contender. The only way to keep that type of parity is to hold tightly to salary rules.
 
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